An Open Framework for Collaborative Distributed Information Management
David De Roure, Wendy Hall, S. Reich, Aggelos Pikrakis, Gary Hill, Mark A. Stairmand · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1998
The MEMOIR project supports researchers working with a vast quantity of distributed information, by assisting them in finding both relevant documents and researchers with related interests. It is an open architecture based on the existing Web infrastructure. Key to the architecture is the use of proxies: to support message routing for dynamic reconfiguration and extension of the system, to collect information about the trail of documents that a user visits, and to insert links on-the-fly. In this paper we present the MEMOIR framework and its rationale, and discuss early experiences with the system. Keywords: Information re-use, trails, agents, open system. 1. The Open Architecture of MEMOIR Effective access to documents and effective collaboration between researchers can be crucial to the competitiveness of large companies. MEMOIR, which stands for Managing Enterprise-scale Multimedia using an Open Framework for Information Re-use, addresses this problem by providing the user with e...